SF Gay Men's Chorus, SFJAZZ reeling after sudden Trump administration grant cuts

KTVU ^ | June 3, 2025 | By Betty Yu

[artichokegrower]

SAN FRANCISCO - Several prominent Bay Area arts organizations have abruptly lost federal funding following a shift in grantmaking priorities by the National Endowment for the Arts under the Trump administration. It's a change that leaders say is putting vital programs and community work at risk.

[artichokegrower]

Among those affected is the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, which received an NEA grant annually for decades. This year, the chorus was awarded $38,000 to support Rhythm, its music education program for local students. But its leadership received a notice from the NEA rescinding the funds, effective May 31.

But how are the groomers going to access the local school kids

[Jonty30]

I guess they will have to pay their own bills.

[Jim W N]

The feds have no constitutional authorization to support the State of CA or their Gay Agenda.

[glorgau]

I voted for this.

[Responsibility2nd]

Is it safe to say these cuts dropped these fellows to their knees?

These cuts must be a real blow to them personally.

They should not just bend over and take it. Oh wait.

[Tench_Coxe]

These twinks?:

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus faces backlash for 'we're coming for your children' video

[rbg81]

Oh, no. Not THAT. Anything but THAT! Oh, the humanity....

[dforest]

You can sing without government grants.

[jacknhoo]

American taxpayers shouldn’t be funding these pederasts.

[GOPJ]

These folks can’t sing without taxpayer dollars?

Progressives are so ‘entitled’ in their own minds - that’s the sickening part.

I don’t care what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms but I’m tired of these people feeling their ‘kink’ allows them access to public funding for all their other activities.

[SuperLuminal]

WTF are we doing paying for a gang of singing perverts?

[Ken Regis]

Warning: gay men reeling!

[Jan_Sobieski]

Sodomite SF Gay men’s Choir admitting their plan to come after our children…

https://youtu.be/ArOQF4kadHA?feature=shared

[Jumpmaster]

Fainting couches booked up with pearl clutchers.

[absalom01]

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised by the groups that our tax dollars have been funding all of these years, but it’s still kind of jaw-dropping.

Reminds me of Walter Benjamin’s description of the angel of history.

“Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. “

[lurk]

No. Because, Constitution and $37T in debt.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

LOL! Clever. I actually laughed out loud!

[whitney69]

“You can sing without government grants.”

The singing is secondary to what the group is trying to display. The efforts to create the appearance of a lifestyle based solely upon a recreational sexual deviancy is their efforts. And using this nonconformity and peculiarity to spread its message to youth using their sexual practices as a symbol is more to what they are trying to do. I still fault California for providing the funds to do it.

wy69

[SaxxonWoods]

If they have a good act they can get gigs like everyone else.

[Billthedrill]

In the meantime, both SFJAZZ and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus are urging local supporters to donate.

If The Community wants The Community can bloody well pay for it.

...RHYTHM (Reaching Youth Through Music), an education program for students by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.

Yeah...about that "reaching youth" part...